Lon Garwood, a spokesman for Sae-A, a South Korean manufacturer often criticized for its labor practices in developing countries and the main factory tenant at the Caracol park, disputed the group's findings, saying all workers earned at least 200 Haitian gourdes for the day, though he did not say how many met the higher rate.
[Daily News] A shuttered Pfizer plant in Brooklyn is turning into a food factory whose tenants will make ice cream, soda and kombucha.
Finding so large a property just 12.5 miles from Manhattan was another reason, as was the opportunity to deal with local officials anxious to see the factory fill with tenants and new uses on the rest of site.
In 1830, the Scottish Benthamite James Mill argued for a secret ballot in order to curb the influence of landlords upon their tenants and factory owners upon their workers.
She had plans to convert the building's ground-floor space into a catering hall, she said, and ran a small factory in another space (tenants said the factory, which produces bright pink belts, was defunct until a few weeks ago).
After successfully developing 300 George Street, a bioscience building in downtown New Haven, Carter Winstanley, a company partner, began looking at 25 Science Park, a renovated factory building in need of tenants.
But neither the building nor Ms. McBride's artwork commemorates other tenants of that brick factory, which has just been razed, among them a bronze foundry, electronics and garment manufacturing companies and, most recently, a halal chicken slaughterhouse.
Irvington (914) 591-5500 www.chutneymasalabistro.com VERY GOOD THE SPACE Exposed brick interior echoes the old brick facade of what once housed a series of tenants, among them a glass factory and a lumber mill.
The 1920s industrial pile, an anomaly among the neighborhood's tenements, was presented to its new tenants as a former button factory, and Mr. Burckhardt figured that "people from the neighborhood had worked here".
Furnishings include a gold-leaf mirror rescued from the barbershop and an upright piano, which according to the previous tenants came from Andy Warhol's Factory and was once played by Lou Reed.
